“Let all things be done decently and in order” I Corinthians 14:40 The above verse was repeated so often by my father that it became a joking family rejoinder to whatever was askew at the moment. My Dutch grandparents epitomized the verse. Their tiny two-bedroom bungalow in Bellwood, Illinois was immaculate. The bungalow’s smaller…
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This past week I encountered atheists on Twitter. I noticed one atheist’s snarky scorn of Christians and I responded.
“The “New Atheism” movement was launched as a direct consequence of the attacks of September 11, 2001.” This is the opening statement of the Prologue from Why Science Does Not Disprove God by Amir D. Aczel, PH.D. According to Dr. Aczel, religion and the acts of militancy creating the carnage of the 9-11 attacks are the raison d’etre…
Previous posts have exposed the false either/or thinking of Epicurean philosophy and its now universally subverting “High-Horse” Mal-ware, a mal-ware that bifurcates mankind’s worldview. At ‘ground level’ there is science, scientism, facts and secularism. In the attic are God, religion, values and meaning. Richard Dawkins and other angry atheists such as the former Christopher Hitchens,…
It may have been in the later 1970s that I became aware of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I don’t recall exactly what brought him to my attention. It may have been news reports of the Soviet Union’s exiled dissident. Solzhenitsyn had been deported from the USSR and stripped of Soviet citizenship in 1974. He later came…
Becoming a follower of Jesus Christ, an heir of the King and a fellow servant in the Kingdom of God began when I first believed that God existed. What followed was the understanding that God not only existed but that He is an Infinite-Personal God who, though having created the vast universe ex nihilo using…
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